Dong Yuanyuan was a happy newlywed until ethnic hatred spilled over into violence in China’s far west. She is recovering: her husband is missing.

Four-year-old Aliya lay on a trolley, blinking up at the commotion, amid scores of victims who had spilled out of the wards into the corridors.

Police fanned out in the far-flung Chinese city of Urumqi on Wednesday to try to stifle unrest days after 156 people were killed in ethnic violence.

Hundreds of Uighur clashed with police in the capital of China’s Muslim region of Xinjiang on Tuesday, two days after ethnic unrest left 156 dead.

China said a riot that shook Xinjiang on Sunday killed 140 people and the government called the ethnic unrest a plot against its power.